Detection of Gravitational Lensing in the Cosmic Microwave Background

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2007-05-28

arxiv.org/abs/0705.3980v1

Phys.Rev.D76:043510,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages, 20 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.043510

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a long-standing prediction of the standard cosmolgical model, is ultimately expected to be an important source of cosmological information, but first detection has not been achieved to date. We report a 3.4 sigma detection, by applying quadratic estimator techniques to all sky maps from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite, and correlating the result with radio galaxy counts from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). We present our methodology including a detailed discussion of potential contaminants. Our error estimates include systematic uncertainties from density gradients in NVSS, beam effects in WMAP, Galactic microwave foregrounds, resolved and unresolved CMB point sources, and the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect.

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